The first World Victory Road event (called Sengoku) has been booked for March 5th in Tokyo at Yoyogi National Stadium Gym I (which is a 10,000-12,000 seat facility). Names listed for the show include Hidehiko Yoshida, Makoto Takimoto, Sanae Kikuta, and Ryo Kawamura.

The promotion will use the following rules: 3R of 5 minutes each for non-title fights, 5R of 5 minutes each for title bouts. Elbows to the face/head and soccer ball kicks are banned. Weight classes are as follows: Heavyweights (93.1 kg or over), Light Heavyweights (93 kg), Middleweights (83 kg), Welterweights (76 kg), Lightweight (68 kg), and Featherweights (60 kg).